The world is not necessarily in its best phase right now.

Energy prices, climate change, Corona - and war has been raging in Ukraine for almost eleven months.

In uncertain times, one longs for a touch of stability.

Luckily there is RTL, the official bankruptcy avoidance channel for D-celebrities.

And he traditionally brings his cult format "Ekel-Dinner for 12" into the living room shortly after New Year's Eve.

Or as TV magazines call it: "I'm a star - get me out of here".

The vernacular, on the other hand, commonly speaks of the jungle camp.

Basically the correct term, because there is no doubt that a jungle and a camp will be involved in the next 17 days.

A star against?

Oh well.

The twelve less or even less well-known camp graduates, who were spontaneously declared by RTL this year as “stars” and recruited for the jungle camp, are (as the TV law wants it) all somehow already with one leg in Peter Zwegat’s flipchart .

Accordingly, they are full of hope tonight in the fight for 100,000 euros in prize money and inclusion in the IBES Hall of Fame.

The bar is set quite high after 15 seasons of tasting kangaroo testicles.

Cult phrases like "I don't want to wake up dead tomorrow" (Joey Heindle) or "I prefer a big heart to the German language" (Jürgen Milski) are hard to beat. But who knows, maybe the IBES squad 2023 will be a tournament team .

The names of all the part-time Australians who are going into the show fight against heat, reptiles, food deprivation and their own dignity are: Cecilia Asoro, Tessa Bergmeier, Gigi Birofio, Cosimo Citiolo, Lucas Cordalis, Claudia Effenberg, Verena Kerth, Papis Loveday, Jolina Mennen, Markus Mörl, Jana Pallaske and Djamila Rowe.

Martin Semmelrogge was initially announced for Rowe (the official IBES photo still shows him, see above).

However, he seems to have found out quickly that Camp does not mean Dieter Bohlen's original design polo shirts, but a real jungle in the tropical forest.

He will therefore probably not move to the camp.

Oh yes: If you are now saying about this self-help group on a class trip: "I know the rules, but who the hell are these people?" I have written a short CV exclusively for you:

Cecilia Asoro

Successfully completed the RTL trash triple with "Bachelor", "Prominent Separate" and "Are You The One?" and thus won a wildcard for the jungle camp and a cover story in "Playboy".

On launch day, she has 33,900 followers on Instagram.

This will be important later, because as an investigative quality journalist, I will track the follower development of the entire camp staff up to the finale.

One hears that social media reach is now important.

Tessa Bergmeier

Her most recognizable body parts are her middle fingers.

Their excessive use secured their premature end in 2009 in the fourth season of "Germany's Next Top Model".

Since then she has been thrown out of the GNTM spin-off "Model WG" after throwing a pan at Sarah Knappik and then had two daughters to calm her down.

As a self-confessed vegan, she announced in the media that she would refuse any animal products in the camp.

Interesting concept for participating in a format that essentially lives from facial expressions that the candidates make while eating delicacies such as fish eyes, crocodile penis or ostrich anus.

Followers: 12,700.

Claudia Effenberg

Considered the mother of all player wives.

Was already married to national players Thomas Strunz and Stefan Effenberg.

Between 1990 and 1992 and between 1998 and 2001, both of them tilled the same lawn together for a few years.

No, not what you are thinking now.

I'm talking about the lawn of the Olympic Stadium in Munich.

The (yes, really!) designer is said to receive an all-time jungle record fee of 500,000 euros.

That would be almost five euros for each of their 102,000 followers.